STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- One of two Republican mayoral candidates in the race, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis got the support of her home team Thursday, with the Staten Island Republican Party voting to back her.

The other GOP candidate, real estate executive Paul Massey, has gotten the endorsement of the Queens and Bronx parties. They are expected to face off in a September primary, with the winner challenging Mayor Bill de Blasio in the November general election.

Manhattan and Brooklyn county committees have not yet announced who they're endorsing.

Malliotakis got the citywide Conservative Party endorsement in the race earlier this month. Massey got the citywide Independence Party backing early on in the race.

The assemblywoman's support Thursday night came at the party's nominating convention at the Hampton Inn on South Avenue after all the Republicans running for re-election got theirs: Borough President James Oddo, Councilmen Steven Matteo and Joe Borelli, as well as newcomers Michael Penrose for North Shore City Council seat, Lisa Grey for Civil Court, former Jet and minister Michel Faulkner for comptroller and Bronx Republican and teacher J.C. Polanco for public advocate.

Malliotakis blasted the mayor on a few issues she has made a focal point of her campaign: protecting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes from deportation and planning to destroy documents submitted for the IDNYC program. She and Assemblyman Ron Castorina Jr., the newly-elected party chairman, lost a lawsuit against de Blasio and the city, seeking to prevent them from destroying the records.

"We need a mayor who is not going to destroy city records simply because he disagrees with the outcome of a presidential election," she said. "We need a mayor who's going to fight to make sure that our Department of Veterans Services gets more money, not a quarter of the money that is put into a legal defense fund to defend illegal immigrants, who have committed crimes like murder and rape, from deportation."

Malliotakis and Polanco, both Latino Republicans, criticized Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and other city leaders who are supporting the leader of the FALN terrorist group Oscar Lopez Rivera in leading the Puerto Rican Day Parade on June 11.

Malliotakis won't attend the parade, and said if she were mayor, she would convince those people to choose someone else.

With her parents, George and Vera, in the audience, she spoke of her father growing up in Greece and her mother in communist Cuba, and coming to America for a better life. But she painted a picture of a New York City that no one can live in.

"As my parents left their homeland to seek a better life, we have countless New Yorkers who are leaving our city to lead a better life," she said. "I like to first call them economic refugees."

Seniors, young people, middle class can't afford to live in the city and are "sick and tired of being nickel-and-dimed specifically by this administration," she alleged.

The only Staten Islander running citywide, Malliotakis wouldn't let her fellow Republicans forget that they live in the "forgotten borough."

"We're always being shortchanged on Staten Island," she said. "We have to fight together twice as much to get half as much."

The "five-borough" fast ferry doesn't include Staten Island, and while de Blasio has said Staten Island won't get a jail, she hit him on the plan to close Riker's Island and open borough jails.

Malliotakis called his plan to build 90 shelters across the city "unacceptable."

She said speed cameras are set up as "traps" that "take money out of hard-working people's pockets" (tickets are mailed to vehicles caught on camera driving 10+ miles over the speed limit in school speed zones.)

Oddo, striking a reflective and somber tone while accepting his nomination Thursday, had endorsed Malliotakis a few hours earlier, saying in a statement that Staten Islanders are misunderstood by the rest of the city.

"How great would it be for a Staten Islander to sit in a seat of power and give us better than a fighting chance at some of our longstanding battles? Nicole provides a unique candidacy in what admittedly is a difficult race. If there is going to be a storybook ending in this campaign, an unexpected and unorthodox candidate and candidacy is the only chance. Nicole provides that."

Malliotakis has also gotten the endorsement of Castorina. He had endorsed Massey in February before Malliotakis joined the race in April, but earlier this month, Castorina rescinded his original endorsement in favor of supporting his Republican colleague in the Assembly.